File 791/1904 Pt 1 'Orders-in-Council: Persian Coast and Islands' [‎273r] (278/357)

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55. The Court shall have jurisdiction from time to time to make an order
Support of wife end child™. requiring a person to contribute, in such
Supp manner as the Court directs, to the
support of his wife, or to the support of his or her child, whether legitimate or
not, being, in the opinion of the Court, under the age of 16 years. Any such
order may be made in a summary way, as if the neglect to provide for the
support of such wife or child were an offence, and any failure to comply with
any such order shall be deemed to be an offence, and shall be punishable with
a fine not exceeding 10 rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. (^CO dollars) for any one default, and the
Court may direct any penalty imposed for such offence to be applied for the
support of such wife or child in such manner as the Court thinks fit.
56. (1) The Consul-General under this Order shall have power to make
and alter E/egulations (to be called King’s
KlllgB eguaionB ' Begulations) for the following purposes
(that is to say)
(a) Tor the peace, order, and good government of British subjects
within any such place in relation to matters not provided for by
this Order and to matters intended by this Order to be prescribed
by Regulation.
(6) For securing the observance of any Treaty or arrangement, for the
time being in force, relating to any place within the limits of
this Order, or of any native or local law or custom, whether
relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any other matter.
(c) For amending, modifying, or repealing with respect to places within
the limits of this Order any Acts or enactments which are made
applicable or have been brought into operation in those places by
or under any of the provisions of Article 7 of this Order.
(d) For regulating or preventing the importation or exportation in
British ships or by British subjects of arms or munitions of war,
or any parts or in gredients thereof, and for giving effect to any
Treaty relating to the importation or exportation of the same.
(e) For requiring Returns to he made of the nature, quantity, and
value of articles exported from or imported into his district, or
any part thereof, by or on account of any British subject who
is subject to this Order, or in any British ship, and for prescribing
the times and manner at or in which, and the persons by whom,
such Returns are to be made.
(/■) For the governance, visitation, care and superintendence of
prisons.
(2) Any Regulations made under this Article may provide for forfei-
ure of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation to which, or to the contents
if which, any breach is committed of such regulations, or of any Treaty or
my native or local law or custom, the observance of which is provided lor y
uch Regulations.
(3) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall,
n addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, be liable, on con vie ion, o
mprisonment, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, or to o .
(4) ) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regulations shall not exceed 1,5C0
upees: provided that in the case of any breach of any native or oca aw
elating to customs law, or under which the importation or exporta ion o any
^oods is prohibited or restricted, the fine may extend to a sum equiya en o
reble the value of the goods in relation to which the breach is committed.
(5) King’s Regulations shall not take effect until they are allowed by a
Secretary of State: provided that in case of urgency dec are in y
Regulations, the same shall take effect before such allowance, an ® .
me to have effect unless and until they are disallowed by the Secretary of
State, and until notification of such disallowance is received an \P^‘‘ ed b J
;he Consul General, and such disallowance shall be without prejudice to any
hing done or suffered under such Regulations in the meantime.